NIMES — Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, whose ex-husband recruited dozens of strangers online to sexually assault and rape her while drugged, returns to court next week for an appeal trial triggered by the bid of one man to overturn his conviction.

Fifty-one men, including her former husband Dominique Pelicot, were convicted at the initial trial that ended in December 2024, after nearly four months, and which turned Gisele Pelicot into an international icon.

Gisele Pelicot, 72, waived her right to anonymity and her dignified and quietly defiant conduct throughout the trial made her a feminist hero and a symbol of the fight of women against male sexual violence.

One of the 51 men convicted, Husamettin D., has filed an appeal and maintained it. This means the appeal trial will go ahead starti

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